Data Security Jobs in the South East

Data Security
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Data Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Security over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 324 286
Rank change year-on-year +55 -38 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 126 84 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.75% 0.56% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.60% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 70 51 96
10th Percentile £42,413 - £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £36,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £52,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -16.80% +13.64%
75th Percentile £92,500 £65,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £58,950 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.26% +2.52% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Data Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,140 14,106 18,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.73% 94.52% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,922 8,179 12,081
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the South East

Data Security
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Security in the South East

Data Security
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Security in the South East

Data Security
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -5 35 £50,000 -5.66% 11
Hampshire +12 31 £85,000 +13.33% 9
Surrey +25 24 £82,500 +73.68% 5
West Sussex +56 15 £52,500 -38.24% 4
Buckinghamshire -50 14 £57,500 +53.33% 4
Kent 0 11 £71,000 +29.09% 1
Oxfordshire - 11 £45,000 - 1
Berkshire +20 10 £57,500 -1.71% 6
East Sussex +23 8 £90,000 +93.55% 7
Middlesex - 1 - -
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 69 (54.76%) Azure
2 48 (38.10%) AWS
3 40 (31.75%) GCP
4 27 (21.43%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.52%) Matillion
5 12 (9.52%) Snowflake
6 10 (7.94%) SaaS
7 9 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.35%) PowerApps
8 8 (6.35%) Serverless
9 6 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.97%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.38%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.38%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.59%) PaaS
13 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.79%) Azure Pipelines
13 1 (0.79%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.76%) Internet
1 6 (4.76%) Network Security
2 5 (3.97%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (3.17%) Firewall
3 4 (3.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (25.40%) BigQuery
1 32 (25.40%) Data Warehouse
1 32 (25.40%) Looker
2 27 (21.43%) Power BI
3 13 (10.32%) SQL Server
4 12 (9.52%) Data Lake
4 12 (9.52%) Metadata
5 8 (6.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
General
1 54 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (14.29%) Finance
3 14 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (9.52%) Legal
5 11 (8.73%) Social Skills
6 6 (4.76%) Billing
6 6 (4.76%) Law
7 5 (3.97%) Retail
8 4 (3.17%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.17%) Wearables
9 3 (2.38%) Local Government
10 2 (1.59%) Marketing
11 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (46.03%) Architect
2 44 (34.92%) Data Architect
3 18 (14.29%) Lead
4 8 (6.35%) DBA
4 8 (6.35%) Enterprise Architect
4 8 (6.35%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 8 (6.35%) Power Platform Architect
4 8 (6.35%) Senior
4 8 (6.35%) Technical Architect
5 6 (4.76%) Analyst
5 6 (4.76%) Data Custodian
5 6 (4.76%) Data Protection Officer
5 6 (4.76%) Developer
5 6 (4.76%) E-Discovery Specialist
5 6 (4.76%) IT Director
6 5 (3.97%) Lead Architect
6 5 (3.97%) Security Architect
6 5 (3.97%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.17%) Data Analyst
7 4 (3.17%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.76%) React
2 5 (3.97%) .NET
2 5 (3.97%) .NET Core
2 5 (3.97%) .NET Framework
2 5 (3.97%) ASP.NET Web API
2 5 (3.97%) Entity Framework
2 5 (3.97%) RESTful
3 4 (3.17%) Web Services
4 3 (2.38%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.79%) JSON
5 1 (0.79%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (26.98%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (13.49%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.17%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.38%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) IoT
7 2 (1.59%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.59%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.79%) Cybercrime
8 1 (0.79%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.79%) Mobile Computing
8 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.17%) Kali Linux
2 3 (2.38%) Windows
3 1 (0.79%) Android
3 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (38.89%) Data Modelling
1 49 (38.89%) Mentoring
2 46 (36.51%) Data Governance
3 44 (34.92%) ETL
4 43 (34.13%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (32.54%) Data Architecture
6 33 (26.19%) Innovative Thinking
7 32 (25.40%) Data Engineering
7 32 (25.40%) Data Integration
7 32 (25.40%) ERD
7 32 (25.40%) Platform Engineering
8 29 (23.02%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (21.43%) Data Protection
10 18 (14.29%) Agile
10 18 (14.29%) Analytics
11 17 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (13.49%) Data Privacy
12 16 (12.70%) Information Security
13 15 (11.90%) Data Strategy
14 14 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.25%) SQL
2 12 (9.52%) T-SQL
3 7 (5.56%) Python
4 6 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.97%) C#
5 5 (3.97%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.79%) C++
6 1 (0.79%) Java
6 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (22.22%) Degree
2 9 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.17%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.17%) CISSP
4 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.79%) ACCA
5 1 (0.79%) CFA
5 1 (0.79%) CISA
5 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (35.71%) GDPR
2 38 (30.16%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (3.17%) NIST
4 4 (3.17%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.59%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.17%) Suricata
2 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (31.75%) Google
2 34 (26.98%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.11%) Databricks
4 6 (4.76%) Nuix
5 4 (3.17%) Cisco
5 4 (3.17%) Juniper
5 4 (3.17%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.17%) Splunk
6 2 (1.59%) Forcepoint
6 2 (1.59%) LogRhythm
6 2 (1.59%) Qualys
6 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.59%) Varonis
7 1 (0.79%) Dell
7 1 (0.79%) Veeam